JLA: Terror Incognita (9th TPB, 2002) [Spoilers]

Includes JLA issues 55-60: one main story arc (battle with the reawakened white Martians); "Bipolar Disorder" (battle with the villain Polaris, who has been "jokerized", which I assume is explained elsewhere but which seems to consist of its victims taking on the Joker's appearance and thought patterns); and a Christmas story starring Plastic Man.

Cool things:

Green Lantern holding off a nuclear blast with his ring (damn!):





Superman's dog--although I'm a little confused since I thought DC got rid of every non-Superman Kryptonian living being twenty years ago? (Is Kandor back as well?):



Batman and Green Lantern arguing over the best strategy to take in fighting Polaris:



Of course in the end it turns out that Batman was right, because Batman is (almost) always right, but Lantern's willingness to question him is a step in the right direction. The "new guy" thing can only be interesting for so long.

Things that made me laugh:

Green Lantern's faux pas:



Flash's challenge to Superman:




Things that made me laugh that really shouldn't have:

Granted that you're probably not doing your best thinking in the middle of a combat situation, but still...






Silver Age moment:

Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern pulling the moon out of orbit and bringing it into the earth's atmosphere so that there would be oxygen. So that there could be fire. So that the White Martians could be defeated (hey, it says "spoilers" in the title). This is the stuff that makes even me suspend my rich supply of disbelief for a moment. (The kids? Don't even blink an eye. I wouldn't have either at their age.)

Superfriends moment:



I'm really not being snarky here--what I mean is that this is one of those points in the comic where the nostalgia kicks in a bit. I actually never watched Superfriends as a kid--we got two television stations, CBS and CBC, and Superfriends was on ABC--but I did see it a couple of times in syndication, and one thing that did make an impression on me was the coming together, the calm after the conflict, at the end of the show, which was pretty common in cartoons of that era, presumably so that kids didn't worry about what happened to Scooby after the credits rolled.

My husband, on the other hand, did watch it as a kid, and has strong opinions on Wendy and Marvin and why they were allowed anywhere near Supervillain Central. But I digress. :)

"Ew!" moment:



No commentary here, just, ew. :P